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The redesign provided more useful and better-presented information, a sleek interaction model, and a focus on optimal usability and lack of intrusiveness.

Like many successful software companies that rose to prominence on the strength of engineering genius, McAfee grew into a security powerhouse thanks to the effectiveness of their offering and the breadth of features and functionality. Since they were able to become and remain a market leader despite a sub-standard user interface, they did not prioritize their design for a long time. When the moment came to make the user interface a competitive advantage they called Involution.

More than a redesign, McAfee needed to modernize their architecture, framework and UI engineering. Involution was an ideal partner because of our proven track record of designing and prototyping exceptional user experiences. Not only did we redesign McAfee’s core consumer product, we helped their technical leadership evolve their staff and framework to be even better in the future.

In a matter of months Involution worked with McAfee leadership and stakeholders, located literally around the world, to set a new vision and trajectory for the redesign. Then, deeply engaging McAfee’s core product, engineering and user experience organizations, our expert team of experienced software pros did the heavy lifting required to completely redesign and engineer the user interface of this complex app, while helping McAfee simply do their software better.

McAfee’s old design had multiple major issues: muddy mental model, lack of meaningful information display, poor interaction model and drab aesthetic were some of the most notable.

Engineering and consulting were as integral to our successful collaboration with McAfee as the design.

Unlike most digital agencies we go straight from sketches to pixel-perfect mock-ups. We rip out fully realized designs, quickly providing customers with higher fidelity and more true-to-life visions of the UI from very early on.

The only way to test the efficacy of your app’s design is with an actual interactive prototype that allows the user to truly experience how the product will behave.

The final prototype we provided McAfee included envelope-pushing Javascript and saved their back-end engineering team hundreds if not thousands of hours.